I've only heard that they are good drives. Speeds are just fine too. Unless you are transfering large amounts of data, I doubt you would notice a difference between 300 mb/s write and 500 mb/s write. For normal daily stuff, I can't really tell the difference between a good SATA II and a good SATA III SSD.

I was SET ON getting a Corsair ForceGT but came across the 256GB Samsung 830 ("bare kit" - just the box and essentials, not the full Desktop Upgrade Kit) for $209 total after sale + "code" on Newegg. I read one review, and I was sold.

It is the absolute best drive when it comes to doing a combination of reads/writes, as if I recall correctly, its WRITE speeds are off the charts, and its READ speeds are more than competitive.

The thing that made me feel most secure in purchasing it, is that performance is within 1% regardless of how full the drive is, and it doesn't lose ANY performance after a HUGE amount of Data Writes! I will try and find the review that had all of this in it, but I am pretty sure it was Anandtech...

Edit: I almost forgot... TWO days after ordering my 830, Newegg had the 240GB ForceGT on sale for just $190... I didn't regret not-waiting ONE BIT!!! And I love the Corsair GT drives!! (although I would probably grab the Perf Pro model now...)

I've only heard that they are good drives. Speeds are just fine too. Unless you are transfering large amounts of data, I doubt you would notice a difference between 300 mb/s write and 500 mb/s write. For normal daily stuff, I can't really tell the difference between a good SATA II and a good SATA III SSD.

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oki, i think that i will try running some games from it together with Windows 7 and 8 64bit to see how it will go together with the rest of my system since my 80gb is a little small for games aswell.

well i forgot to say it's labelled OEM but should i be worried about that?

well i forgot to say it's labelled OEM but should i be worried about that?

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Nope, that just means you don't get the fancy retail packaging and extras.... You still get to download the Samsung drive software and all that from their site, so you're not missing anything!!

EDIT: Oh, another thing.. While Samsung may advertise lower numbers than many competitors, it is by far the most accurate when it comes to advertising actual capabilities; dozens of SSD reviews have shown me that those are the numbers you will see with the Samsung with a margin of error of maybe 5% max; compared to the Vertex3 and the like, which tend to have a margin-of-error as high as 33%, it's very good..

They are EXTREMELY consistent-performing drives: that is something I would take any day of the week over a theoretically-faster but inconsistent drive!

I am 99% sure you will love the drive! Granted, there is always room for error regardless of how good the company is, etc; but that said, I have searched for reports of issues with the Samsung 830 (256GB version specifically) and found very little... The warranty is more than sufficient to cover any issues, which are rare anyways. No worries of BSOD/Firmware Problems/crashes/freezing/etc like with Sandforce drives: Samsung is the only company now whose drives are made entirely in-house (they make their own NAND, their own Controller, etc).